Don't ask where people go

Chapter 15 The Harem
Li Shengxuan has been busy since he came to the throne, and Fang Zilan hasn't seen him for several days, not even Xia Houzhang's face, let alone talk about remuneration.

She was trying to find a way to meet Li Shengxuan, so Fang Ziqin sent someone to ask her to help prepare for the Queen's Sealing Ceremony.

It is logical for King Xiang to ascend the throne and concubine Xiang, and the courtiers naturally have no objections.However, she heard from Qiu Shui beside Fang Ziqin that although the courtiers said nothing on the surface, they all wanted to send their sisters and daughters to Li Shengxuan's side in private. Run a draft.

"Ms. Qiushui, why worry about getting angry, you might as well let nature take its course." While comforting Qiushui beside her, Fang Zilan checked the list just sent by the Ministry of Rites.

On the other side, Qiu Shui was counting all the items to be used in the ceremony, and frowned when she heard her words, "You don't know that group of royal officials who congratulated the new emperor on the enthronement of my lady as queen, but secretly said If you spread branches and leaves, don’t you think my lady has no heirs?”

"Miss Qiushui!" Fang Zilan yelled nonchalantly, but Qiushui suddenly realized that she had made a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly fell silent.

"This kind of thing is not something we can talk about, let's do the thing at hand." Fang Zilan said and brought the list in front of Qiushui, "I'll get it right, there's no problem."

"Thank you, Miss Xiu." Qiu Shui took the list, and was about to say something, when someone outside announced the arrival of the Empress Dowager.

Hearing the notification, Qiu Shui was stunned for a moment, "Why did the Empress Dowager come here suddenly?"

"Anyway, Miss Qiushui hasten to inform the empress first." Fang Zilan patted the stunned person beside her, she nodded, turned and ran into the inner hall.

The Empress Dowager is the biological mother of Emperor Ning Shun, and can also be regarded as Li Shengxuan's empress mother. It's just that she came to see the empress at this time, and she probably came to show off her authority.Fang Zilan thought so, and saw that Fang Ziqin had already walked out.

And the busy maids of honor at the door had also arrived, and after a while of saluting and greetings, Fang Zilan finally saw the appearance of the Empress Dowager, a graceful and luxurious old woman, with her own majesty in her gestures, and she was also a beauty when she was young.

"Ever since you entered the palace with that child Shengxuan, Ai's family has not been able to come to see you once. Now that you are free, do you blame Ai's family?" The empress dowager pulled Fang Ziqin's hand away with a smile. hands, with an intimate face.

Fang Ziqin smiled dignifiedly and decently: "Empress Dowager, what are you talking about, Ziqin is so frustrating."

"The Ai family knows that Ziqin is the most sensible." The empress dowager said and patted Fang Ziqin's hand, "It's just that the queen mother is not in good health and has been resting for the past few days, otherwise she must be with the Ai family today." Come and see you."

"Is the queen mother ill? Ziqin will let the imperial doctor take a look later." Fang Ziqin showed concern, but the empress dowager shook her head. She has already entered the palace and has been taking care of her, so you don't have to worry too much."

Hearing this, Fang Zilan's heart tightened. The empress dowager mentioned the two princes, Yucheng Wang Li Qiyou and Yuming Wang Li Qiye, perhaps not on a whim, and what Qiushui said to her just now, she just felt bad.

She looked at Fang Ziqin, and saw that the smile on her face faded a little, it seemed that they wanted to go together.

Sure enough, the empress dowager, who was chatting and laughing, suddenly sighed, "It's not easy for Shengxuan to fight on the battlefield these years, and you still don't have a son or a daughter."

Fang Ziqin was just about to say something, but the Empress Dowager didn't give her a chance, and continued, "But how can you do it alone with Shengxuan? If you want Aijia to say that you should be more magnanimous, mostly because of Shengxuan Consider it."

What the empress dowager said seemed to be the fault of Fang Ziqin alone for not having a child. Fang Zilan couldn't help frowning slightly, but Fang Ziqin just responded lightly, "What the empress dowager taught is that Zi Qin made a note of it."

"Since I wrote it down, I have to do it." The Empress Dowager smiled and looked a little serious, "The Ai family has found a few girls in the past few days, all of them are from good families, and they will be sent to the palace tomorrow. Let Shengxuan take a look, and keep the ones you like by your side."

From a good family?Fang Zilan frowned even tighter. The woman who can enter the palace and be sent to the emperor should be from a family of officials. What's the matter with a good family?

However, Fang Ziqin agreed to everything, Xu Shi saw that she was obedient and let others manipulate her, so the Empress Dowager didn't say much, and left after a few polite words.

As soon as the empress dowager left, Qiu Shui couldn't help muttering a few words, but Fang Ziqin didn't say anything, but turned to look at Fang Zilan, and said softly: "It seems that I need to trouble Miss Xiu for help this time."

The corner of Fang Zilan's mouth curled slightly, "The empress wants to be a good person, so why does she insist on me being a villain?"

Of course she knew what Fang Ziqin wanted her to do for her. Since she had just promised the Empress Dowager, Fang Ziqin couldn't refuse when someone sent her over tomorrow, so she had to find someone else to do such picky things. Not a good job.

"The Empress Dowager doesn't want to offend the Empress Dowager, so naturally I don't want to either." Fang Zilan said lightly, without the slightest sense of being a court lady.

Fang Ziqin was not annoyed, "Since Miss Xiu stayed by the Emperor's side, she wanted to do something for him. The Emperor would not want the Empress Dowager to put eyeliner by his side. For Miss Xiu, this is an opportunity. "

"The empress's words are not unreasonable, I can consider it." Fang Zilan smiled, "It's just not a good thing to openly offend the empress dowager, I have to have a name."

"You should think of this title." Fang Ziqin smiled, "The ones who can be sent to the palace can only be women from official families, not from good families."

Fang Zilan pretended to be helpless and sighed, "Since the Empress has even figured out the name for me, then I can't refuse."

In fact, even if Fang Ziqin didn't say these things, she would still agree. After all, this incident gave her an excuse to meet Li Shengxuan, and she had to discuss the remuneration with Li Shengxuan as soon as possible.

The next day the Empress Dowager sent someone to bring the five girls. Fang Ziqin shirked that he wanted the emperor to see it with his own eyes, but it was delayed until the afternoon. After sending a message to Li Shengxuan to confirm his consent, Fang Ziqin said that the Minister of Rites Wanting to talk to her about the process of the Empress Dowager Ceremony, she casually sent Fang Zilan and the five girls to the Imperial Garden to meet Li Shengxuan.

Fang Zilan lamented that Fang Ziqin's whole set of acting was really watertight, and now the empress dowager probably thinks that Fang Ziqin is a puppet queen who has no opinion and can't do anything, it really is a good method.On the other side, he was worrying about how he would help get rid of these five girls when he saw Li Shengxuan later.

In the morning, although Fang Ziqin said she was delaying time, she still checked the backgrounds of the five girls carefully for her. Except for the fact that they were not from official families, everything else was good.

Fang Ziqin has been comforting her, saying that even this is enough to send people away.

But since the person was sent by the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager must know better than them.Knowing that she still has to send it over, the Empress Dowager will definitely not give up easily.

Now that this hot potato was stuffed into her hands, Fang Zilan only felt a little bit regretful.

"These are the people the queen wants me to meet?" Li Shengxuan sat leaning against the railing of the waterside pavilion, looking at Fang Zilan and the five girls beside her standing on the porch, her half-smiling expression made her feel a little uncomfortable, and she was in a hurry. nod.

Seeing her nodding, Li Shengxuan glanced around, and said calmly: "Since it is sent by the Empress Dowager, let's stay."

"That..." It's not that Fang Zilan didn't expect Li Shengxuan to agree, but she didn't expect him to agree so quickly. It seems that the villain really wanted her to do it.

Fang Zilan took a deep breath, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Although I am presumptuous, I checked the backgrounds of the five girls, and none of them came from official families. I hope Your Majesty will think twice."

"The people in the harem must be official women, I still know this." Li Shengxuan looked at her thoughtfully, "That's all, you send people out of the palace."

Hearing that Fang Zilan just wanted to agree, she heard the girl next to her knelt down with a plop, "I beg the emperor to let the servants stay in the palace, even if there is no title, it is good to be by the emperor's side."

Fang Zilan couldn't help being taken aback by this sudden situation. How could she have forgotten this trick? It really is a troublesome job.She thought so and went to help the girl who was kneeling on the ground, but it was no surprise that the girl was still kneeling on the ground and refused to get up.

"Do you know what it means to have no status?" Fang Zilan shook her head involuntarily, and she didn't know what the Empress Dowager did to these silly girls, so she could say such words.

There was a hint of crying in the girl's voice, "My family knows, but as long as I can stay with the emperor, my family doesn't care about anything."

Li Shengxuan on the opposite side looked like he was watching a play, and Xia Houzhang next to him naturally didn't say anything, Fang Zilan couldn't help but secretly sighed that he was unlucky, and then pretended to be fierce, "Miss, you know, with your What will be the consequences of becoming the emperor's woman? There are so many eyes watching in the palace, you are afraid that you will never have peace. If you are lucky enough to survive or even become pregnant in the future, you may not even save your life..."

She paused deliberately as she spoke, and as expected, she saw the panic in the girl's eyes, "Why?"

"Why not? It is a serious crime to tarnish the blood of the royal family." Fang Zilan looked at the person in front of him coldly, "Is it Ling Chi's execution or five horses? Let me think about it."

The second half of her sentence was just to scare the girl who didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, but the girl seemed to have made a lot of determination, "I don't care."

Although the voice was small, everyone present could hear it clearly.

Fang Zilan was a little annoyed, could it be that she spoke too loudly and made the girl not afraid of anything, or did the Empress Dowager guess that they would do this and ordered these girls in advance?
Just when she was puzzled, she suddenly heard Li Shengxuan's voice, "You don't care, I do."

　Daily question: Has Fang Zilan started a career today?

　　
　
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